{"id":661,"date":"2017-09-26T15:52:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellef5.sg-host.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2021-09-10T15:10:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T15:10:14","slug":"the-808-bonneville-challenge-is-a-great-success-and-raised-450000-in-its-first-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondationaleo.ca\/en\/le-defi-808-bonneville-connait-un-vif-succes-et-amasse-450-000-a-sa-premiere-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The 808 Bonneville Challenge is a great success and has raised $450,000 $ in its first edition."},"content":{"rendered":"

Mont-Tremblant, September 26, 2017 \u2013<\/strong> The first edition of the Bonneville 808 Challenge presented by Fenplast in collaboration with Samson Groupe Conseil for the benefit of the Quebec Foundation for Athletic Excellence (FAEQ) took place this weekend in Mont-Tremblant under the brightest sun. 170 teams, representing nearly 380 cyclists in total, took on the challenge of this 808 km or 404 km ride, to be completed solo or as a relay in teams of 2 or 4 cyclists.
\n\u00abI am very proud and moved by the success of this first edition of the D\u00e9fi 808 Bonneville. I had long wanted to offer people a major cycling event where everyone could choose their challenge, push their own limits, and have a unique experience for a whole weekend of cycling, sweating, helping each other, and contributing to making a difference in the journey of our student-athletes, our leaders of tomorrow. The excitement and camaraderie were present, and I'm already looking forward to next year,\u00bb said Dany Bonneville, president and founder of D\u00e9fi 808 Bonneville, who himself completed the ultimate 808 km solo challenge in 34 hours and 40 minutes without sleeping, under sweltering heat.<\/p>\n

The president of the FAEQ, Claude Chagnon, also rejoiced at this first edition: \u00abThis major public fundraising event is a first for the Foundation, and we can say mission accomplished. The participants, partners, volunteers, and current and former scholarship recipients in attendance showed their enthusiasm and desire to return next year in large numbers. The amount raised will allow us to achieve our goal of awarding $1,350,000 $ in individual scholarships to nearly 475 student-athletes in 2017,\u00bb he stated.<\/p>\n

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Dedicated sponsors and partners<\/strong><\/p>\n

For this first edition, the organizing committee of the D\u00e9fi 808 Bonneville was able to count on the support of numerous sponsors, partners, and suppliers such as Produits Neptune, Maisons Bonneville, Lefebvre & Beno\u00eet, Coaching Financier Trek, SS Lacasse, Cycle N\u00e9ron, SAS, Powerwatts, Kronobar, Boscus, Lowe\u2019s, Saputo, Stelpro, Lounge Factory, Naya, Albi Le G\u00e9ant, National Bank, and National Bank Financial.<\/p>\n

Fellows and former fellows who are participating and getting involved<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several FAEQ scholarship holders and former scholarship holders participated in this first edition, including Lyne Bessette, Hugues Fournel, Simon-Pierre Gauthier, Alex Genest, Martin Gilbert, Mathieu Laforest, Audrey Lemieux, Charles Moreau, Fran\u00e7ois Parisien, and Gabrielle Pilote-Fortin.<\/p>\n

Several other former scholarship recipients also agreed to be involved in this sporting weekend as volunteers, namely Marie-Eve Beauchemin-Nadeau, \u00c9ric Guay, Mika\u00ebl Kingsbury, Jo\u00eblle Numainville, Marie-Christine Roussy, not to mention the 2017 event spokespersons F\u00e9lix Auger Aliassime, Antoine Duchesne, Alex Harvey, \u00c9milie Heymans, Am\u00e9lie Kretz, and Annie Pelletier.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mont-Tremblant, le 26 septembre 2017 \u2013 La premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition du D\u00e9fi 808 Bonneville pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par Fenplast en collaboration avec Samson Groupe Conseil au profit de la Fondation de l\u2019athl\u00e8te d\u2019excellence du Qu\u00e9bec (FAEQ) a eu lieu ce week-end \u00e0 Mont-Tremblant sous un soleil des plus radieux. 170 \u00e9quipes repr\u00e9sentant pr\u00e8s de 380 cyclistes au total […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles-de-la-faeq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationaleo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationaleo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationaleo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationaleo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationaleo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fondationaleo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationaleo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationaleo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationaleo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationaleo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}